Monday, May 25, 2015
Theresa Rebeck decants two marriages on the rocks, but fails to get us to care about either couple.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 15, 2014
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Hot playwright Bruce Norris examines the fallout when a man wants it all, and then some.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 11:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Monday, October 7, 2013
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Brenda Withers could have gone the glam route, like her Matt
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Even if you think you know everything about world-famous sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, playwright Mark St. Germain (Freud's Last Session) has put it all together in one very appealing p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 13, 2013
The comfort level afforded by a well-endowed arts institution is not always propitious. Case in point: Boston's prestigious Huntington Theatre Company extended an invitation to local playwri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:49PM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2013
There's a mathematical elegance to the plot of Jane Austen's debut novel, Sense
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
There's something oddly muted about director John Tiffany's rendition of The Glass Menagerie, which represents the American Repertory Theater's first foray into Tennessee Williams territory.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:40PM[SHARE]Friday, January 4, 2013
This is not your high school's Pippin. Not unless your drama teacher had the budget to hire world class Canadian acrobats as players, or the clout to bring in show composer Stephen Schwartz …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2012
For her latest play, Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again, now premiering at Yale Repertory Theatre, Sarah Ruhl essentially seems to have t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:31PM[SHARE]Monday, December 10, 2012
Kathleen Turner deserves a measure of thanks for dusting off Frank Marcus's provocative and sporadically hilarious 1964 dramedy The Killing of Sister George, about a much-beloved BBC radio s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:59PM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2012
Jeffery Roberson " bravely shedding his longtime nom de théâtre, Varla Jean Merman -- plays it straight, if cross-dressed, as the title character of Gian Carlo Menotti's powerful one-ho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Kara Lee Corthron's
AliceGraceAnon now at the vast Irondale Center, is an appropriately sprawling piece of theater: part rock musical and part feminist mash-up. And even if it's only interm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 21, 2012
The Other Josh Cohen at Soho Playhouse could be described as a seriocomic thirty-something tale of romantic woe. Yet, thanks to the cleverness of co-authors David Rossmer and Steve Rosen and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 15, 2012
On the face of it, John Douglas Thompson might not be anyone's first choice to portray Louis Armstrong, especially in the twilight of his career. But the supremely talented actor proves to b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2012
The light and clever hand of adapter/director Julie Kramer guides the new stage version of Rona Jaffe's scandalous 1958 novel
The Best of Everything, now at HERE.This fairly faithful redact…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 8, 2012
In
Marie Antoinette, now at American Repertory Theater, David Adjmi dispenses with the obvious jests right off the bat. "O let them eat cake," protests Marie (the spectacular Brooke Bloom),…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 7, 2012
The Cape Playhouse offers a mostly outstanding production of Cole Porter's beloved musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 5, 2012
The Williamstown Theatre Festival presents a tepid version of Ivan Turgenev's novel about an unhappy Russian woman.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2012
This dazzling arena show based on the Dreamworks animated film is aptly named.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2012
This musical based on the silly 1979 film fails to capture the fun of the era.
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